sheller
Americannoun
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a person, device, machine, etc., that shells something, as peas or clams.
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a person who collects seashells.
Etymology
Origin of sheller
Example Sentences
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A painted corn sheller for removing kernels from corncobs proudly wears its maker’s individual slapdash brush strokes, and two tired nails hold their heads high on arthritic shafts, testimony to walls they once held secure.
From New York Times • Sep. 19, 2014
Loans to build a new warehouse and to construct a peanut sheller at one time totaled about $1 million.
From Time Magazine Archive
From 1975 through 1977, they borrowed nearly $10 million to buy a huge new peanut sheller and enormous supplies of raw peanuts.
From Time Magazine Archive
Impatient to expand, he invested in a peanut sheller and began to supply large processors; then he branched out into warehousing.
From Time Magazine Archive
When convenient, nuts were hulled in the field with a corn sheller, but more often they were brought to Norris and run through a hulling machine.
From Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Seventh Annual Report Wooster, Ohio, September 3, 4, 5, 1946 by Northern Nut Growers Association
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